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[osidiano]

I recently started a Werewolf game where I ended up the Storyteller. I was going for "grimdark eco terror and spiritual horror." Then we realized that the pack we made was comprised entirely of fuck-ups. One wolf's character concept involves being a disappointment to his father; another has a Compulsion to check his Instagram notifications at inopportune times. One of the wolves is so spiritual he keeps accidentally Slipping Sideways whenever he gets stressed out (and he's pretty high strung). Other people would probably think we were "amateurs," but we've all been RPing for decades and had a TON of fun in our first session. I fudged a lot of rules and streamlined some aspects of gameplay to ease everyone back into the WoD mechanics; none of us have ever played the W20 version, and either hadn't played any WoD games since the '90s or at all. As we progress and everything gets more familiar, I'll introduce more complex rules and toughen up on rolls, but in the beginning you gotta keep it moving so that people invest enough to make time in their schedules every month or week or however often you play.

Basically, maybe you just need to give these groups more of a chance. You could also be arriving during a light-hearted period just before or after a huge drama fest.

[(Anonymous)]

I would never drop a group after one game! That is why searching is so hard for me, I do not want to "hop" between campaigns and inconvenience everyone by leaving a sudden hole in the group or something.

With online roleplaying it's so hard to judge whether you will like the campaign, like the DM and like the other players, there are so so so few ways to tell, so I kind of have to rely on the presentation of the listing & I try to check the applications of the players that were already accepted.
And even then I'll run into games like the one where, during my first talk with the DM (before session 0), he warned me that one of the other players was "very vocal anti pc" but "really a nice guy" and then like 5 minutes later mocked another player's character concept, which he had approved.
Another game I was clicking really well with the DM with my intrigue heavy character, but the other players got bored and eventually angry (at my character) because they felt left out since they had built "standard" adventuring characters with no motivation to get involved. And this was after a good 3 months of RP!

I'm very go-hard-or-go-home when I join any game and I want an environment of people that are the same. Even a detailed listing isn't a good indication of what to expect, as mentioned, so it's like... why even bother with anything that I'm not total in love with, if there's a good chance this is how things are going to go.
Most games don't even bother listing their DM style/what they expect of their players which is like sdmnhfgjsdfg idk a red flag for me, it's like, have you really not put any thought into what kind of people you want to DM for? Hang out with every week for hours?

Anyway, that's kind of my issues. Rambling. Sorry!

[osidiano]

Aaaah, okay. That makes sense. I don't roleplay much online anymore, so I guess I was thinking it would be like showing up for a pick-up game at a store or something. I haven't used Roll20, but I remember trawling through the Blizzard forums looking for an RP guild on WoW, and yeah, the listings can be really misleading. Even for things that I thought I'd be way into, I was kinda. . . meh. Roleplaying online hasn't been really fun for me since Yahoo!Groups shut down and I quit GaiaOnline. Now I stick to tabletop games, even if we have to play them over Skype. Good luck, OP! I hope you find a group that works for you